KAZAKH PREMIER TO GO TO DUSHANBE FOR CIS MEETING

Kazakhstan Today news agency website, Almaty
24 May 06

Astana, 24 May: This afternoon, Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov
is to leave for Dushanbe [Tajik capital] to attend a meeting of the
CIS council of heads of government, the agency reported quoting the
government’s press service.

[Passage omitted: reported details on the CIS meeting]

At the forthcoming meeting, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will be represented on the
level of prime minister, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine on the level
of deputy prime minister, and Turkmenistan on the level of ambassador.

[Passage omitted: a meeting is planned between participants in CIS
meeting and Tajik president]